Pastor Rehwaldt's Welcome
Grace to you and peace!
In 1954, Martin Luther Lutheran Church began spreading that good news of grace and peace in Lee's Summit, Missouri. In 2008, MLLC finds itself in the midst of a transition from one pastor to another -- a transition that I am helping to get started and which will continue under Pastor Merle Brockoff when he arrives in July.
Let me tell you a bit about myself. I grew up in St. Louis and southern Illinois, and attended both college and seminary in Chicago. I returned to the St. Louis area in 1989 to serve my first parish as an ordained pastor, and in 1992 served as the interim campus pastor at the Lutheran Campus Ministry at the University of Kansas, followed by a regular call to a parish in Kansas City. In 1996, I moved to Alameda, California in order to pursue a Ph.D. in "Worship, the Arts, and Proclamation" at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. My dissertation was titled "Let All God's People Say 'Amen!': A Multigenerational Understanding of Rite, Hymnody, and Preaching." Along the way, I served on the hymn editorial committee for Evangelical Lutheran Worship, the new ELCA hymnal.
God's grace is a gift for people of all ages, and this is clearly what one finds at Martin Luther Lutheran Church. On any given Sunday, you will see infants and toddlers, wise old elders, and almost every age in between, all rejoicing in the many gifts God has given to them. If you are in the area, whether you are a Christian or someone who is curious about the Christian faith, please join us for worship on Sunday mornings, because these gifts of God's grace and peace belong to you!
In 1954, Martin Luther Lutheran Church began spreading that good news of grace and peace in Lee's Summit, Missouri. In 2008, MLLC finds itself in the midst of a transition from one pastor to another -- a transition that I am helping to get started and which will continue under Pastor Merle Brockoff when he arrives in July.
Let me tell you a bit about myself. I grew up in St. Louis and southern Illinois, and attended both college and seminary in Chicago. I returned to the St. Louis area in 1989 to serve my first parish as an ordained pastor, and in 1992 served as the interim campus pastor at the Lutheran Campus Ministry at the University of Kansas, followed by a regular call to a parish in Kansas City. In 1996, I moved to Alameda, California in order to pursue a Ph.D. in "Worship, the Arts, and Proclamation" at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. My dissertation was titled "Let All God's People Say 'Amen!': A Multigenerational Understanding of Rite, Hymnody, and Preaching." Along the way, I served on the hymn editorial committee for Evangelical Lutheran Worship, the new ELCA hymnal.
God's grace is a gift for people of all ages, and this is clearly what one finds at Martin Luther Lutheran Church. On any given Sunday, you will see infants and toddlers, wise old elders, and almost every age in between, all rejoicing in the many gifts God has given to them. If you are in the area, whether you are a Christian or someone who is curious about the Christian faith, please join us for worship on Sunday mornings, because these gifts of God's grace and peace belong to you!
Pastor Peter Rehwaldt
